The decibel (symbol: dB) is a relative unit of measurement equal to one tenth of a bel (B).It expresses the ratio of two values of a power or root-power quantity on a logarithmic scale.Two signals whose levels differ by one decibel have a power ratio of 10 1/10 (approximately 1.26) or root-power ratio of 10 1 ⁄ 20 (approximately 1.12).. The unit expresses a relative change or an …

Derwent, a two-tender locomotive built in 1845 by William and Alfred Kitching for the Stockton and Darlington Railway, is preserved at Darlington Railway Centre and Museum.. Suffixes. For a steam tank locomotive, the suffix usually indicates the type of tank or tanks: . 0-6-0T - side tanks; 0-6-0ST - saddle tank; 0-6-0PT - pannier tanks; 0-6-0WT - well tank ...

Hyphen-minus Non-breaking hyphen Hebrew maqaf The hyphen ‐ is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. Son-in-law is an example of a hyphenated word. The hyphen is sometimes confused with dashes (figure dash ‒, en dash –, em dash —, horizontal bar ―), which are longer and have different …

The Greek root -phil-originates from the Greek word meaning "love". For example, philosophy (along with the Greek root -soph-meaning 'wisdom') is the study of human customs and the significance of life.One of the most common uses of the root -phil-is with philias.. A philia is the love or obsession with a particular thing or subject. The suffix -philia is used to specify the love …

Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate that is the setting of the 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell.In the novel, the Party created Newspeak: 309 to meet the ideological requirements of Ingsoc (English Socialism) in Oceania. Newspeak is a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed …

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns, adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry grammatical information (inflectional suffixes) or lexical information (derivational/lexical suffixes).An inflectional suffix or a grammatical suffix.

En morphologie, domaine de la linguistique, un affixe (du latin ad-fixus > affixus, « (qui est) fixé contre ») est un morphème en théorie lié qui s'adjoint au radical ou au lexème d'un mot. Des affixes peuvent se lexicaliser et donc devenir des morphèmes libres : c'est par exemple le cas pour le préfixe ex-dans une expression comme mon ex, à savoir mon ex-mari / -petit ami, etc.

In formal language theory and computer science, a substring is a contiguous sequence of characters within a string. [citation needed] For instance, "the best of" is a substring of "It was the best of times".In contrast, "Itwastimes" is a subsequence of "It was the best of times", but not a substring.Prefixes and suffixes are special cases of substrings. A prefix of a string is a …

Modern Hebrew grammar is partly analytic, expressing such forms as dative, ablative, and accusative using prepositional particles rather than morphological cases.. On the other hand, Modern Hebrew grammar is also fusional synthetic: inflection plays a role in the formation of verbs and nouns (using non-concatenative discontinuous morphemes realised by vowel …

Shoshoni, also written as Shoshoni-Gosiute and Shoshone (/ ʃ oʊ ˈ ʃ oʊ n i /; Shoshoni: soni' ta̲i̲kwappe, newe ta̲i̲kwappe or neme ta̲i̲kwappeh) is a Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family, spoken in the Western United States by the Shoshone people. Shoshoni is primarily spoken in the Great Basin, in areas of Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and Idaho.: 1 ...